RIP Skype (2025)
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RIP Skype (2025)
Died a slow agonising death from years of neglect after being acquired by Microsoft.
Skype joins a growing list of messaging software that has died in the care of Microsoft.
• V-Chat (died 1995)
• Comic Chat (laid to rest 1999)
• Netmeeting (met demise 2007)
• Windows Messenger (croaked 2008)
• Meeting Space (expired 2009)
• Office Live Meeting (passed 2011)
• MSN Messenger (gave up ghost 2012)
• Qik (kicked bucket 2016)*not a complete list.
Skype.
You will be remembered.
In a nostalgic kind of way.
For a while at least. -
RIP Skype (2025)
Died a slow agonising death from years of neglect after being acquired by Microsoft.
Skype joins a growing list of messaging software that has died in the care of Microsoft.
• V-Chat (died 1995)
• Comic Chat (laid to rest 1999)
• Netmeeting (met demise 2007)
• Windows Messenger (croaked 2008)
• Meeting Space (expired 2009)
• Office Live Meeting (passed 2011)
• MSN Messenger (gave up ghost 2012)
• Qik (kicked bucket 2016)*not a complete list.
Skype.
You will be remembered.
In a nostalgic kind of way.
For a while at least.@dgar@aus.social It's amazing, isn't it? Not only at microsoft either. There is something about "chat" as a software category that attracts a kind of criminally incompetent and neglectful management.
Hordes of promising chat messaging platforms have been sacrificed at their altar. Today's options aren't here because they're good, but largely because they weren't mismanaged into oblivion. -
@dgar@aus.social It's amazing, isn't it? Not only at microsoft either. There is something about "chat" as a software category that attracts a kind of criminally incompetent and neglectful management.
Hordes of promising chat messaging platforms have been sacrificed at their altar. Today's options aren't here because they're good, but largely because they weren't mismanaged into oblivion.@NullNowhere
Before COVID Skype was synonymous with Video Call. People would “Skype” each other all the time.One would have thought COVID would have created an opportunity for Microsoft to make Skype the video chat standard for the world.
It takes real talent to fuck up a brand that quickly and completely.
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@NullNowhere
Before COVID Skype was synonymous with Video Call. People would “Skype” each other all the time.One would have thought COVID would have created an opportunity for Microsoft to make Skype the video chat standard for the world.
It takes real talent to fuck up a brand that quickly and completely.
@dgar @NullNowhere didn't they push Teams with some free stuff in 2020?
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@dgar @NullNowhere didn't they push Teams with some free stuff in 2020?
@NullNowhere @TheConstructor
Teams should be next on the chopping block. It’s garbage software.
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@NullNowhere @TheConstructor
Teams should be next on the chopping block. It’s garbage software.@dgar @NullNowhere @TheConstructor It was garbage from the start. That's why they will keep it alive at any cost.
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@dgar @NullNowhere @TheConstructor It was garbage from the start. That's why they will keep it alive at any cost.
@agarwaen@mastodon.tetaneutral.net @dgar@aus.social @TheConstructor@social.tchncs.de it’s not a chat application first and foremost to Microsoft. It’s an area-denial weapon. They conceived Teams because Slack and others were probing a move into the office productivity space, threatening the Office monopoly. So it was tossed in for extremely cheap to insulate Office customers against considering Slack.
In other words, it’s a “warm body” piece of software. It doesn’t need to do anything but exist enough to satisfy some office suits. It should have honestly triggered a stronger anti-trust respond.
